Posted on 03/17/2010 11:56:40 PM PDT by Mount Athos
More than 100 Austin car buyers had their vehicles disabled or triggered to continuously honk after police said a former employee hacked into the company’s account.
Police said the terminated Texas Auto Center employee accessed the computer system to disable the online account that allows the company to deactivate the starters and activate the horns and GPS of many of the vehicles.
The company said they had more than 80 customers who complained they lost work, missed school or complained of towing expenses and vehicle repairs.
Police arrested Omar Ramos-Lopez, 20, charged with breach of computer security.
Austin Police Department High-Tech Crimes Unit detectives said they were contacted by Texas Auto Center at 8113 S. I-35 on March 4 after they said Ramos-Lopez accessed their Pay Technologies account.
The company said he had deactivated the starter system in many vehicles that they financed and caused the horns to honk throughout the night, even if customers were up to date on their loans.
government motors? On Star.
Well. REMOTELY.
Very interesting.
Omar is a Muslim name. Ramos-Lopez is Catholic, but Omar is definitely Muslim.
Any background info?
Here is his pic, i’ll post the URL instead of the pic since it’s a big one
http://media.gosanangelo.com/media/img/photos/2010/03/17/20100317-201911-pic-346453682_t607.jpg
Interesting. Looks like the typical Hispanic, but I was wondering more about any Islamic conversions in his recent past.
As for reducing picture sizes, you just need to add a, say width=800 after the quotes containing the URL for the image and before the closing > sign.
Omar Martinez immediately comes to mind, long-time drummer with Paul Revere & the Raiders.
Same here in Mexifornia; plenty of Mexican Omars.
That’s strange, because here in Australia, many Lebanese Muslim males are named Omar. It’s probably second in terms of popularity amongst Muslims, after Muhammad, as a name.
Perhaps a Moorish import into Spain?
Yup, Omar is a Mexican or at least a Spanish name. Have an Omar down the street. Definately not muslim.
Anyone that subscribes to Onstar is stupid!
well now I’m sitting here wondering if Toyota could be having remote hacker problems....wonder what the chances are?
Omar is a common Hispanic name, and not completely uncommon amongst Caucasians. You won’t find anyone who’ll accuse Omar Bradley of being a Muslim.
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